Haven't seen your favorite bartender in the bar or nightclub you usually hang out at in a while? You might want to check out a red carpet event near you, she might have elevated her status to celebrity arm candy. Bartenders are a hot commodity in the eyes of celebrities and lately superstar golf athletes. Here's a list of some noteworthy celebrity-bartender hookups.
- Take Hollywood hottie, Matt Damon, for instance. In 2005, he married Argentinean girlfriend Lucianna Barroso during a private ceremony in New York City. They met while she was working as a bartender in Miami Beach, Florida. They remain happily married.
- Other Hollywood heart-throb, George Clooney, ended his relationship with ex-barmaid Sarah Larson after nearly one year of romance. They met while she was working at The Whiskey Bar in Las Vegas but things didn’t allegedly get serious until June 2007 when they ran into each other at the premiere of Ocean’s Thirteen. The cocktail waitress turned model had been enjoying a loftier lifestyle with Clooney, hobnobbing with the likes of the Dalai Lama and Mikhail Gorbachev. No worries, Larson seems to have rebounded nicely when she attended the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and was seen fraternizing with Ryan Cabrera.
- Ryan Seacrest has been romancing L.A. bartender Jasmine Waltz. They met during a night out at Guy's, a West Hollywood lounge. Waltz had previously worked at other L.A. hotspots including Les Deux and the Italian restaurant Bella. For the moment, they are still together.
- At 19, Drew Barrymore married bartender Jeremy Thomas, 12 years her senior. Her romance was short-lived and she filed for divorce two months later, in 1994.
- Neve Campbell of Scream, Scream 2 and Scream 3 infamy met Jeff Colt, a bartender at the theater in which she performed. They soon fell in love and moved in together in 1990, when Neve was 17. They were married in 1995 in England's Westminster Cathedral, but amicably got divorced three years later.
These unlikely pairings may seem to be on opposite ends of the spectrum. At first glance it may appear to be a means to an end for the bartender or the appeal of "keeping it real" for the celebrity. I beg to differ. Bartenders and celebrities have a lot in common--they both need to feel comfortable putting on a show. Just as an actor draws the audience into a dramatic world, a bartender creates a theatrical experience for those sitting at the bar. Whatever the case, who are we to judge celebrities and their hall of foam?